LOS ANGELES, CA – MARCH 28: Sam Dekker #15 of the Wisconsin Badgers shoots a three-pointer alongside Gabe York #1 of the Arizona Wildcats in the second half during the West Regional Final of the 2015 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament at Staples Center on March 28, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)
2015By Matt Yoder on

Sam Dekker is a white guy.

If you watched the NBA Draft on Wednesday night, or any Wisconsin basketball game over the past few years, you already know this.

But you’d also know it by the player comparisons to Dekker.  As friend of AA Paul Pabst likes to always note, there’s a funny quirk when it comes to scouting reports and player comparisons where white guys always get compared to other white guys, no matter how similar or dissimilar their games might actually be.  This hypothesis manifested itself when ESPN’s Jalen Rose dusted off the Wally Szczerbiak tape from out of nowhere as Dekker’s NBA doppelganger.  Even Kyle Lowry of the Raptors joked that Rose was just comparing players who looked alike.

Naturally, it wasn’t just Sczerbiak who was compared to Dekker on draft day.  No, no, no, no.  In fact, you can make the case that Sam Dekker is basically every white guy who has ever laced it up in the association….

Gordon Hayward

Wally Szczerbiak

https://twitter.com/BPredict/status/614246746676428800

Keith Van Horn

Chandler Parsons

Chase Budinger

https://twitter.com/kevinparten/status/614214131663679488

Kyle Korver

https://twitter.com/Garebear_20/status/614246560138924036

Steve Novak

https://twitter.com/BYUfootballguy/status/614102033461743618

Kyle Singler

Adam Morrison

https://twitter.com/kevinparten/status/614214131663679488

And yes, Larry Bird.

https://twitter.com/karinna_cesar/status/614246623301009408

This is incredible.  I mean really, the only name missing from this list is Eric Piatkowski!  Wait a second…

I think we’re done here.

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